[WikiEN-l] Another notability casualty

[Ken Arromdee]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, George Herbert wrote:
>>> Interesting comparison with historical antecedants! This is more the
>>> sort of level of debate I'd like to see at AfD. I wonder what a
>>> closing admin would make of it... :-)
>> You shouldn't *need* to go through this level of debate just to keep a page
>> around when the notability rules could be fixed instead.  Otherwise we're
>> no longer the encyclopedia anyone can edit, we're the encyclopedia that
>> anyone with an extraordinary level of debate skills can edit.
> And yet - without the first level filtering offered by these rules, we
> can't easily seek out and remove a lot of obvious abuse.

My point isn't that we should do away with notability; it's that we should
*fix* it.